Addenda to the Draft Decision for the C.P.C. onCollective Pay for Employees of State Institutions[1]

Written:Written June 28, 1921Published:First published in 1932 inLenin Miscellany XX.

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Afive-man commission to be charged with collecting the fullest
possible material for an estimation of both payments in kind and actual
money payments, embracing all and every form of such payment without
exception, including cab fares, etc., which are now being applied in
Moscow’s central institutions.

Collectivesupply both for workers and office employees is to be
introduced subject to the following rules:

1)eachenterprise where collective supply is introduced concludes a
special agreement with the Government;

2)underthis agreement, the enterprise (in the person of its
management and specially elected representatives) undertakes to steadily
reduce the number of workers and office employees and raise their
productivity, as well as work discipline to a normal level. An enterprise
in industry corresponds to a department or subdepartment, etc., for state
employees;

3)non-fulfilmentof the agreement entails a penalty, including total
loss of supply.

[1]Thedraft decision on collective pay for employees of state
institutions wasdiscussed in the C. P.C. on June 14, 21 24 and 28 and
July 8, 1921. The system of collective supply was designed to replace that
of individual supply by ration coupons and lists as well as bonuses paid in
kind. The workers and office employees received remuneration exclusively in
the form of wages and salaries, the amount of which was fixed for each
enterprise as a whole, i.e., collectively for all the workers and office
staffs. On June 24 the C.P.C. passed a decision adopting the system of
collective pay for employees of state institutions in Moscow and Petrograd
as from July 1. and in the remaining districts of the Republic not earlier
than September 1, and setup a commission to complete "the draft in order to
determine, on the basis of at least limited approximate data, what the
number of Soviet employees will be after the reduction and what their pay
is in money and in kind. On June 28, 1921, the C.P.C., followng reports by
A.B. Khalatov and L. I. Ginsburg, passed its decision on collective pay for
employees in state institutions with amendments to Point “A” proposed by
Lenin and with his wording of Point “D”. The final text of the Council’s
decision was adopted on July 8, 1921.